Post by Kalila Al-Jaleel bint Karimi on Apr 25, 2010 18:13:51 GMT -5
Kalila Al-Jaleel bint Karimi
(Translation: Beloved, the beautiful daughter of Karimi)
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Age: 18
Height: 5' 2”
Gender: Female
Home Province: Medina, Madinah (Umaiyyat)
Location: Ridal City, Al Ridal
Appearance
Dusky skin the colour of clover honey and eyes a striking hazel, a radiating mixture of blues, greens, oranges and yellows, stand out against hair that epitomizes the true black sheen of the onyx stones that adorn her graceful neck. The stones, a gift from her Sultan, but her petite height and curvaceous body come from her beautiful mother. Her cheekbones are high, her lips soft and plush and she has a fineness of nose that is uncommon (though not rare) among her people. Her walk comes from her early contact with dance, her hips the kind that sway seductively with every step. Kalila covers her luxurious jet locks so as not to shame herself, her station or her family, with sheer scarves of various colours. When she is sent to entertain those in the confidence of the Sultan with dance, she wears she wears long, flowing and sheer skirts, a veil to cover her nose, lips and chin, and cropped tops that show her beautiful curves. Kalila smiles at all times, and blushes often, being a young girl, and at the moment, the youngest girl in her Sultan's growing Harem.
History
Kalila Al-Jaleel is the first child of three and only daughter of Abdullah Karimi Al-Jaheed and his first wife, Mod'alna bint Shadar. Mod'alna and Karimi were arranged to be married, their families having had a long line of uninterrupted peace and confidence with one another, their parents thought it was God's will to have the two family lines joined. The decision was made when the two were but babies, and the union was finalized once they had reached the age of 18. At that time, Karimi had only seen his future bride a handful of times, and though he knew her to be beautiful, mostly from word of mouth, he was wary. His family held more influence, land and power in Madinah, and he was worried what might happened, depending on the kind of woman she would turn out to be. However, once wed, the two became acquainted and, in time, grew to genuinely love each other, which they saw as a gift from God themselves as so many arrangements did not end up happy.
Karimi had spent his childhood learning his father's business, raising and trading horses and camels, mainly for military purposes, but also for the wealthy families who could afford pedigree animals. He also followed in his father's footsteps, being part of the Sultan's army post in Madinah. The trade had been in his family for over a century, and so the bloodlines of the pedigrees were immaculate. When he was married, his father bought him his own home, but Karimi still worked with his father until he passed. He passed before Karimi and Mod'alna had their first child, only a mere month before, in fact.
Kalila arrived on the heels of death, and it was not certain whether she would be a good child, or an ill-luck one, possessed by Djinn. But Kalila as a baby proved to be sweet, having a gentle disposition, and rarely fussy. She remained the same as she grew into a child, and into a young woman. She enjoyed watching her father work, and helping him feed the horses. Karimi, being the head of the household, was also her personal spiritual leader, and taught her of Islam. She helped her mother cook, and learned how to sew and mend. Her mother taught her to read from the Qu'ran. Kalila also enjoyed drawing, but her heart's gift was dance. She did not let her parents know this, of course, but she often would disappear into the city to watch at places where the men would smoke hashish and the women would dance. She learned to belly dance and dance the mizmar by sheer observation. Also, her beauty became apparent as she grew, and unfortunately for her, advances were often made, men asking her hand in marriage, and word of this made its way to the Sheikh of Madinah.
Once this information reached his ears, he only saw how this could make him and Madinah rise in the favour of the Sultan (his distant cousin) another route to show his loyalty, whether it was true or not. Suitors came for her hand, but her parents stayed fast. But, when the Sheikh made them an offer of increased rank, the ability to let one of his own prized horses sire a brood, and that the Sultan would smile down upon them, and, therefore, Allah would smile down upon them, they gave their virgin daughter up with smiles and thanks.
At the age of 16, Kalila was brought to Al Ridal, to Ridal City and to the Palace of the Sultan where she was housed in the Sultan's Harem, amongst many other women. She missed her family, and the smell of the salt from the sea bordering her province, but welcomed the change of the bustling capital city. In the Harem, she was the youngest, and would not be called for by the Sultan until she was in her 18th year. There she learned the arts of pleasure from both pictures and words in a book called “One Thousand and One Nights” that taught the blushing Kalila the sensual arts. Before the Sultan first called upon her, she found herself enraptured with the ideas in the book, awed by the words, the stories, the actions, and she found herself drawing positions of her own on small scraps of paper with small, sharp edged pieces of charcoal from the fireplace in the harem.
Even in the Harem, surrounded by many women, Kalila does not have a conniving bone in her body, which generally made other women believe that she would not last long. However, her 18th birthday now past, she is a grown woman, and ready to meet the Sultan she had been given to, and who she wished to meet and would with an open heart, and more.